Joel, I think that 10,000 figure is the total number of murders in the US. I may be wrong, though. (It wouldn’t be the first time, after all, I got married once.) Just a factoid you might want to know: last year there were around 350 murders committed with semi-auto rifles like the AR-15 and AK-47. There were over 600 murders committed where the weapon of choice was a hammer.

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